Dinosaurian CSI (was RE: Spinosaurs as what?)

[Renato Santos <dracontes@hotmail.com>]

Tim Williams wrote:

> I've heard this "_Cryolophosaurus_-choked-on-a-prosauropod-bone" before, 
> but I don't know where this originally came from.  The original Hammer and 
> Hickerson (1994) article makes no mention of this, aside from the 
> preservation of prosauropod bones near the _Crylophosaurus_  type material. 
>  It reminds me of the discredited "_Seismosaurus_-choked-on-a-rock" idea 
> that was circulating for a while.

I perhaps took it from the National Geographic article on the find some 
years ago or just figured that since the animal was found near a carcass 
that it'd died while it was feeding.

This prompts another question: as any particular dinosaur find had the cause 
of death determined with accuracy, i. e., one really has sound evidence that 
the animal's death occurred that way? Examples (and papers) are appreciated, 
as I was planing to do an illustration of _C. ellioti_ choking, but I'd 
rather have a clear picture of how the animal that produced a particular 
find died.

Renato Santos

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